Moshe Givental 

Courage in the Dark

 

Reframing Hope

• Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

• Transforming Despair by Joanna Macy

• Learning to See in the Dark by Joanna May

• Beyond Hope by Derrick Jensen

• Deep Adaptation vs. Deep Transformation, and on the Role of Hope and Despair

• Sustainable Activism: Managing Hope and Despair in Social Movements

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Courage and Resilience in the face of Grief, Denial, Trauma, and Extinction

• Understanding Grief Can Help Us Adapt

• Our Aversion to Doom and Gloom is Dooming Us

• Understanding Climate Inaction as a form of Trauma and Addiction

• Societal Inaction as Expression of Society-Wide Trauma and Addiction

• Climate Catastrophe Is Ungraspable Just Like the Holocaust Was

• What Would It Mean to Deeply Accept the Planetary Crisis

• A Model for Transformative Resilience

• Earth Chaplaincy and a Model for Understanding our Society Moving Through the Stages of Grief

• Why We Won't Quit Fighting

• Extinction Illness: Grave Affliction and Possibility

• A Buddhist Perspective On Facing Extinction

• How Civilizations Rise and Fall, Sane and Insane Progress

• International Transformational Resilience Conference 2017 and 2018

• Leading the Public into Climate Emergency Mode

• From the End of "Normal" to Solidarity

• A Survey of Eco-Emotions

• 20 Principles of EcoResilience

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Additional PsychoSpiritual Resources

• American Psychological Association on Mental Health Consequences of Climate Change

• Climate Psychiatry Alliance Resources

• Climate Psychology Alliance

• Climate, Mind and Behavior Symposium

• Spiritual Leaders on Climate Change

• Rabbi Waskow and the Shalom Center

• Rabbi Seidenberg and Neohasid.org

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Active Hope

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Active Hope is not wishful thinking. 

Active Hope is not waiting to be rescued by some savior.

Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we can act.

We belong to this world.

 

The web of life is calling us forth at this time.

We’ve come a long way and are here to play our part.

With Active Hope we realize that there are adventures in store,

strengths to discover, and comrades to link arms with.

 

Active Hope is a readiness to discover the strengths in ourselves and in others;

a readiness to discover the reasons for hope and the occasions for love.

A readiness to discover the size and strength of our hearts, our quickness of mind,

our steadiness of purpose, our own authority, our love for life, the liveliness of our curiosity,

the unsuspected deep well of patience and diligence,

the keenness of our senses, and our capacity to lead.

 

None of these can be discovered in an armchair or without risk.

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― Joanna Macy ​